THE AIDS COMMUNITY DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS provided community-level HIV prevention interventions to historically hard-to-reach groups at high risk for HIV infection.

The projects operated under a common research protocol which encompassed formative research, intervention delivery, process evaluation, and outcome evaluation.

A formative research process specifically focusing on intervention development was devised to assist project staff in identifying, prioritizing, accessing, and understanding the intervention target groups.

This process was central to the creation of interventions that were acceptable and unique to the target populations.